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Lower Hutt, NZ

Taupo, Waikato, New Zealand

Taupo, Waikato, New Zealand

Taupo

South Auckland

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

Strategic leadership, working collaboratively with the directorate, Childrens Teams and agency leaders and local communities.Deliver results and develop effective relationship management, communicatin, and change management in a sustainable manner.Responsible for and provide strong leadership and mentoring to the Implementation and Service Development.

Mount Isa-Gulf, Queensland

• Introduced Family and stakeholder meetings as casework best practice model into the service Centre.
• Completed Family Group Meeting review and created new practice model for implementation in region.
• Change Management – led the team through the incoming changes based on Carmody recommendations impacting on casework as new practice frameworks are introduced.
• Supervise, manage and lead a team of Child Safety Officers from a variety of disciplines, in accordance with Queensland Government Child Protection Act 1999 and Child Safety Services Child Protection Practice Manuel.
• Lead Family Group Meeting Convenors to prepare and facilitate family meetings from a strength based and solutions focused framework enabling family solutions to be found so that children can remain safe in the home.
• Lead team of Child Protection Officers as they manage individual caseloads focused on working with children kept at home with their families but requiring intensive casework from Child Safety Officers and the.

Cairns, Queensland

• Performance management
• Staff recruitment.
• Staff supervision, clinical & administrative.
• Achievement planning.
• Strategic direction & implementation of regional disability plan.
• Participate & contribute to Regional management team objectives.

Cairns

• Re-designed intake process for Family Support Program referrals to be more client focused & expedient service provision.
• Arranged team-building workshops to address team conflict.
• Provided team leadership & clinical supervision to staff.
• Consultant to staff regarding complex client cases.
• Completed client prioritisation panel process.
• Complex client caseload as MPSS.

New Plymouth, Taranaki

• Active on-going caseload of 20 children and families.
• Assessment and investigation of matters of concern.
• Family Court report writing
• Family Group meeting preparation briefs.
• Long term case planning for children in long term care.
• Social Work interventions in accordance with short term parental agreements.

New Plymouth, Taranaki

• Developed this service from my own vision based on disability gaps in our community –funded by IHC
• Tendered and obtained new business contracts with MOH, ACC, TEC. (Govt. depts.)
• Set up and designed new supported living programmes.
• Set up and designed new supported employment prog.
• Designed business plan, vision and mission statements.
• Designed policy

New Plymouth

• General Operations Management.
• Budget Management
• Complex Service co-ordination
• Complex assessment report writer.
• Team leadership and supervision.
• Designed internal service Co-ordination manual.

Bachelor Of Social Work, Social Work, Passed 28 Papers Over Four Years

4 year degree

Diploma In Management, Management

High School, Generic Subjects, Achieved University Entrance.

Activities and Societies: DramaAttended Inglewood High School 1975 to 1979